It would seem that standing desks are all the rage. Well, seriously, isn't it enough that one has to work, but now we are expected t...

We have always had a soft spot in our heart for  Black Mountain College.  Often thought of as the initial spark for the avant-garde moveme...

Mail time usually coincides with nap time, a time when the kitties snuggle in for a long spring nap. As usual, I come in with the mail and...

On Easter Sunday, when so many people were thinking of the Risen Christ, I was thinking of poets, and duct tape an...

We do love the simple things in life -- good tunes, a nice cuppa joe, a warm afternoon.  Well, two out of three ain't bad. Yesterday...

In the South, we have a pie called a chess pie. The joke goes that in a thick Southern accent, when a woman said "It's just pie...

I'll be honest, I could never come up with a good reason say anything nice about Auburn. Then, Samuel Mockbee  co-founded Rural Studi...

Today is Clara Rockmore's 105th birthday.  Clearly the virtuosos of the theremin would be a Pisces! In an homage to Rockmore, today...

I have always been a huge fan of Lee Radziwill. She is that one person I would love to have over for dinner. When I was a kid, I cut ...

Today is the sale at Sotheby's for Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire: The Last of the Mitford Sisters . As one would expect, prices are s...